you may want to look around. our SPCA in San Francisco has a special training program. Fozzie is about to graduate tomorrow.
You might enjoy the thread I started about what we learned in therapy dog class (in poodle talk area).
He will need to know "leave it" cold, with the highest value items like hot dogs and cheese, since you will need him to instantly back away from eating anything like a pill, gauze, patient food which may have medications in it, etc.
He should not be jumping up on people as elderly skin is like tissue paper and if they are diabetic can take months to heal.
make sure you are doing things like practicing grabbing his snout, ears and tail the way someone who is not in control perfectly may do.
If you can, show him wheelchairs, crutches, and canes. Introduce him to as many strangers as possible.
Hope this helps. I am so looking forward to getting out there with Fozzie.
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